Lino Salini

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Self-Portrait (1920)

Umberto Lino Salini (born December 27, 1889 in Frankfurt am Main , † December 20, 1944 in Würzburg ) was a German painter and caricaturist . Salini is often compared to Heinrich Zille , because he liked to take the motifs for his drawings from a specific milieu : the Sachsenhausen cider taverns. His caricatures and pictures of Frankfurt originals can still be found today in numerous inns. His estate is administered at the Frankfurt Institute for Urban History .

Life

Salini's father Giovita Salini came from Bedonia ( Province of Parma ). He had settled in Frankfurt am Main in 1875 as a junk dealer . Later he ran a wine tavern with a small restaurant in Königswarterstraße in Ostend and, despite a flourishing business, got into difficulties because he gave too generous credits to the numerous employees in the Frankfurt import and export companies and the Italian merchants who frequented him.

Giovita Salini married Dorothea Friederike Bartling from Hanover, with whom he had four children. Umberto Lino, born on December 27, 1889, was the only child to survive. His mother died when he was four years old.

His father had meanwhile moved the wine tavern to Kaiserhofstrasse in the city ​​center , a side street off Freßgass . There it became a meeting place for Frankfurt artists. Salini's father was also active there as a draftsman, concentrating primarily on one motif: the Blue Grotto on Capri , for which he found buyers among his guests.

The son's talent showed up early on. He was particularly fond of the animals in the Frankfurt Zoo . His inclination was also noticed by the painters who frequented his father's wine bar. Antonio Becker and Gustav Herold gave him instructions at an early stage and encouraged his father to teach him first to teach the painter Alois Penz and then to undergo thorough training at the Städelschule from Professor Wilhelm Amandus Beer and Emil Gies.

Contrary to some warnings from old friends, it did not become a breadless art for the young Salini. Caricature became his real profession, especially in small-format drawings (mostly in black and white, colored here and there). Occasionally he also made large-format watercolor portraits , as well as ink, red chalk and chalk drawings.

Especially his drawings were known milieu of cider in Sachsenhausen , with whom he for Ebbelwoi Zille was. Like Heinrich Zille , Salini mainly drew portraits and sketches of the people he met on his forays through the streets and restaurants of the city.

Well-known Frankfurt artists such as Wilhelm Altheim, Fritz Boehle , Cefischer , Mateo Cristiani and Georg Mahr belonged to his circle of friends . Salini portrayed numerous artists when they were guests in Frankfurt, including Heinrich George , Clemens Krauss , Paul Wegener , Fjodor Schaljapin , Arturo Toscanini , Beniamino Gigli , the clown Grock and Joachim Ringelnatz . Most of his works were lost in an air raid on Frankfurt in March 1944, which also completely destroyed his studio on Hochstrasse.

He spent the last months of his life in Homburg am Main near Wertheim . There, wall paintings by him have been preserved in the restaurant “Zur Krone” to this day . Salini died on December 20, 1944 of severe kidney disease.

Only part of his work that he had relocated to Homburg remained from his personal estate. Although Salini was very popular in Frankfurt during his lifetime - u. a. Many of his drawings appeared in the Stadtblatt der Frankfurter Zeitung  - apart from smaller exhibitions, there was no overview of Lino Salini's oeuvre in the post-war period. It was not until 1978 that the works received were shown to the public for the first time in the exhibition Lino Salini - Frankfurt Caricatures with Heart and Whistle of the Polytechnic Society .

On the occasion of his 100th birthday, another exhibition in the Institute for Urban History followed in 1989 with the subject of Lino Salini - draftsman and caricaturist from the first to the second world war .

The Society for the Promotion of Frankfurter Painting e. V. organized a commemorative exhibition in Dreieichstrasse in Sachsenhausen from November 14th to December 16th, 2005 in a specially prepared apple wine restaurant.

Lino Salini has not received much credit in the literature. In 1930 the “Bibliophile Society” published a small number of sketches in which mainly the heads of its members were recorded. It was not until 1978 that a book appeared with Lino Salini's Frankfurter Bilderbogen , which gives a brief overview of Salini's work.

Salini drawings, on the other hand, were often used for book illustrations, as can be seen in various volumes of poetry in Frankfurt dialect and other local primers.

A systematic processing of the entire material obtained has not yet taken place. In addition to numerous private collectors, the Institute for Urban History has the largest Salini collection.

literature

  • Reinhold Brückl (Ed.): Lino Salini's Frankfurter Bilderbogen. 118 caricatures, portraits, sketches. Haag and Herchen, Frankfurt am Main 1978, ISBN 3-88129-154-7
  • Wolfgang Klötzer (Ed.) And others: Frankfurter Biographie, Personengeschichtl. Lexicon Volume 2 MZ , Verlag W. Kramer, Frankfurt am Main 1996, ISBN 3-7829-0459-1 , p. 234

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personal data
SURNAME Salini, Lino
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Salini, Umberto Lino (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and caricaturist
DATE OF BIRTH December 27, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main
DATE OF DEATH December 20, 1944
Place of death Wurzburg